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Picturing the modern amazon / edited by Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein.

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Picturing the modern amazon / edited by Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein.
Publication
New York : Rizzoli : New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Fierstein, Laurie
  • Frueh, Joanna
  • New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Stein, Judith E.
Description
176 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.
Series Statement
New Museum books
Uniform Title
New Museum books
Subject
  • Barney, Matthew, 1967-
  • Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-
  • Eisenman, Nicole
  • Leibovitz, Annie, 1949-
  • Saar, Alison, 1956-
  • Serrano, Andres, 1950-
  • Sherman, Cindy, 1954-
  • Spero, Nancy, 1926-
  • Women > Exhibitions
  • Women bodybuilders > Exhibitions
  • Women in art > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition, pictorial works
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, March 30-July 2, 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Marcia Tucker -- Preface : The body artist / Irving Lavin -- Notes on contemporary art images / Judith Stein, Laurie Fierstein, and Joanna Frueh -- Introduction: -- Modern amazon / Laurie Fierstein ; Object lessons / Judith Stein ; Real nude / Joanna Frueh -- Bring on the amazons : an evolutionary history / Jan Todd -- Women's bodybuilding : a contemporary history / Steve Wennerstrom -- Ghettos of obscurity : individual sovereignty and the struggle for recognition in female bodybuilding / Leslie Heywood -- Toward a new aesthetics of body for the modern woman / Al Thomas -- Dream girl / Michael Cunningham -- Hardcore : the radical self-portraiture of black female bodybuilders / Carla Williams -- My muscles, myself : selected autobiographical writings / Nathalie Gassel -- Female muscularity and the comics / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone -- Comments on the comics / Laurie Fierstein and Joanna Frueh -- Interviews with women bodybuilders : Pudgy Stockton, Bev Francis, Lenda Murray, Andrulla Blanchette, René Toney / Joanna Frueh -- Amazons in fiction : a bibliography / Pierre Samuel.
ISBN
0847822478
LCCN
^^^00688602^
OCLC
44053689
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library